
To Kingdom Come
An Epic Saga of Survival in the Air War Over Germany
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Narrated by:
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David Drummond
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By:
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Robert J. Mrazek
On September 6, 1943, 338 B-17 "Flying Fortresses" of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England, bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb Nazi weapons factories. Dense clouds obscured the targets, and one commander's critical decision to circle three times over the city---and its deadly flak---would prove disastrous. Forty-five planes went down that day, and hundreds of men were lost or missing. Focusing on first-person accounts of six of the B-17 airmen, award-winning author Robert J. Mrazek vividly re-creates the fierce air battle and reveals the astonishing valor of the airmen who survived being shot down---and the tragic fate of those who did not.
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What did you love best about To Kingdom Come?
The battle descriptions.What did you like best about this story?
The weaving of many lives into one mission.What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
The narrator will drive you nuts at first, but stick with it. His style really works in the combat sequences.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
The combat sequences had a profound affect on me.Any additional comments?
The book takes some time to get going. Like the squadrons of Boeings forming over England, the characters are gathered in a large intro to the fateful mission. Keep with it. What these men went through deserves patience.38 Planes Were Sent Out. Only 2 Returned.
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The personal touch Mrazek brings to each story manages to convey it at all scales from grand strategy to the happenings in individual planes. It's difficult to span this wide a scale, but Mrazek does it skillfully.
In the interests of full disclosure, Ray Theodore Wilken, one of the men Mrazek follows through the raid was my biological grandfather, so I had a reason to read this book. Doing so has taught me more about my own family history and the histories of the men linked to Ted by their joint service, and the German fighter ace who killed him.
An important story
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I felt a kinship with these boys
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Skip this one, it was like paying to listen to finger nails on a chalk board.
Painful narration
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